DOWN
RANGE.
She served her country.
Now her farm is in the line of fire.
The Story
Two disabled veterans living with PTSD found peace on a Charles Town, W.Va., farm. Now the Kemmerling family could lose it to Valley Link’s proposed Valley North 765-kV transmission line.
About the Film
Home isn’t
just a place.
Lt. Col. Catherine J. Kemmerling has lived on her Charles Town farm since 2021. A disabled veteran living with PTSD, she calls the farm “my sanctuary, my peace, my life.” Now it’s all at risk.
Valley Link’s proposed Valley North 765kV line would create an “interstate” of electricity, dissecting West Virginia before cutting into Maryland, and it could cost the Kemmerlings their farm.
Down Range highlights her fight to keep the farm, and asks what the country owes the people who served it when their homes are perceived to stand in the way of development.
“I’ve never backed down from a fight before, and I’m not going to start now.”— Catherine Kemmerling
Production
The credits
Director
Andrew Spellman
AN ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY
For The Spirit of Jefferson
Produced By
O.D.D. Productions
